Prostitute checked into our hotel!

[GrumpyL]

Ok, so away in London for a couple of days with DH and DD (10). We were staying in a 4* Hotel which is part of a large chain of hotels, not a small independent. We went to reception about 10.30 on the 2nd morning and was met with a lady (who was very obviously a prostitute) being told her room would be ready in 5 mins and her handing over £100 in cash to the receptionist. The hotel is £250+ a night and check in is 3pm!

AIBU to this this made the hotel feel a bit icky and sleazy after I saw that? Husband and I spoke briefly when DD wasn’t listening and he said “well they have to work somewhere!”. Not sure if I’m turning into a prude in my old age, but I really didn’t feel comfortable in the hotel after I saw that. I’m sure for her, it was a safe and comfortable place to work and I know this goes on in hotels, I suppose just seeing it in broad daylight shocked me a bit. We knew what she was there for, the receptionist knew what she was there for, the man behind us in the queue knew what she was there for, maybe I thought she and the hotel should have been a bit more discreet if they allow this to go on in their hotel, especially when it’s a family friendly hotel and there were a lot of children around?

Do you need another set of pearls to clutch onto OP?

She might of been wanting a break from home. Working from the room or meeting up with a partner.

You do know that a prostitute lives next door to you, don’t you?

Those same people have all the vices and more that everyone else has. Prince Andrew fits into your categories, would you want him on the next table?

Most hotels have day rates for their rooms. It's a way of bumping up revenue, and if they have spas attached, you also get access to that.

If you were the hotel owner/manager, YANBU.

As merely another customer/guest, YABU.

You do realise it happens at the Ritz, etc.

It's not like she was snogging reception with a hickey on her neck and a can of cheap cider in her hand.

How do know she wasn't paying so she could check in early? Or paying for damaging something in her room? If she was a prostitute then why would she wasting her money on an expensive hotel? There is nothing discreet about a man turning up to a hotel in the middle of the day for half an hour and then leaving, so who would she be seeing? And if she was an escort or sugarbaby, the person paying her would also be paying for the hotel so she wouldn't be paying for anything.

My old man’s a prostitute,
He wears a prostitute hat

You are confusing streetworkers with independent escorts. Totally different. One is illegal and the other is not.

IBIS charge about £90 for a day (10am to 5pm I think).

But they don't accept cash, like every single day use hotel I've been in doesn't accept cash.

Yes, that's happened to me twice when travelling for business meetings. At one of the hotels, the doorman tried to stop me entering until I gave the name of the "gentleman I was meeting" 🙄

@GrumpyL there are several reasons for daytime use of a hotel room. Fashion teams and film crews use them for changing or setting up; so do wedding planners and bridesmaids. Detectives sometimes use a hotel room as a base. Air crew and other travellers book in to sleep and shower between journeys. People even book suites for business meetings. Prostitutes do use them, of course, and the most usual daytime customers are couples having affairs.

It's kind of sweet that you were shocked!

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YABU. Firstly, you don't know for sure that she was a prostitute. Secondly, your DD and any other children present would have been unaware that she was a prostitute unless either she or the hotel receptionist shouted "prostitute checking in" during their interaction.

She wasn't doing anything that would impact you.
Mind your own business and leave her alone.

People use prostitutes in hotels all the time.

I used to stay regularly in a very expensive upmarket hotel for work. The concierge told me that there were code words for 'additional services' guests might want.

Apparently if you rang reception and asked for 'a soft pillow' the concierge would procure you a prostitution from a reputable source.

Fecking grim if you ask me, but sadly, commonplace.

Just to add that I was taken to £500 a night hotels plenty of times...

This thread didn't go the way you planned did it?

Oh and 'reputable' should have been on quotes.

And by 'people' I mean men. 🤢

To be honest, it’s better to do it there than the woman being unsafe on the streets.

Oh and the same hotel would always ask the male guests how many card keys they wanted even though they were booked as a single occupant on a corporate booking.

Never once offered that to me.

Hotels are a shag fest. 😬

Ooh. I always got asked that when I travelled for work, and I always had a single occupancy reservation. I must look like a prostitute 😀

You sound absolutely vile, OP.

Did posting this thread make you feel better about yourself to look down on another woman and her life choices?

A prostitute paying to service men in that sort of hotel, will probably be getting paid for her services by your classy rich people.

No words 🥴

You do realise that money doesn’t buy class?

In fact most of the rich I’ve met are the least classy people I’ve ever had the misfortune to endure.